Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously hard to study, so complex was the web of fact and fiction in his work. Joakim Garff's biography of Kierkegaard is thus a landmark achievement. A seamless blend of history, philosophy, and psychological insight, all conveyed with novelistic verve, this is the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet written of the life and works of the enigmatic Dane who changed the course of intellectual history. Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as the all-controlling impresario behind some of the most important works of modern philosophy and religious thought--books credited with founding existentialism and prefiguring postmodernism--but rather as a man whose writings came to control him. Kierkegaard saw himself as a vessel for his writings, a tool in the hand of God, and eventually as a martyr singled out to call for the end of "Christendom." Garff explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard, including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and his famously tortured relationship with his fiancée Regine Olsen. He recreates the squalor and splendor of Golden Age Copenhagen and the intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard found himself increasingly embattled and mercilessly caricatured. Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this book, here presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard's life for years to come.

Kierkegaard, Søren --- Philosophers --- Denmark --- Biography --- Kierkegaard, Soren, --- 1 KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- 1 KIERKEGAARD, SOREN Filosofie. Psychologie--KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- Filosofie. Psychologie--KIERKEGAARD, SOREN --- Kierkegaard, Søren. --- Anti-climacus --- H. H. --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --- Scholars --- Biographies. --- Anti-Climacus, --- Bogbinder, Hilarius, --- Chʻi-kʻo-kuo, --- Climacus, Johannes, --- Constantius, Constantin, --- Eremita, Victor, --- Haufniensis, Vigilius, --- Johannes, Climacus, --- Johannes de Silentio, --- Kʹerkegor, Seren, --- Kierkegaard, S. --- Kierkegaard, Severino, --- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, --- K'i︠e︡rkegor, Sʹoren, --- Kīrkajūrd, Sūrīn, --- Kirkegaard, Soeren, --- Kirkegor, Seren, --- Ḳirḳegor, Sern, --- Kirkegors, Sērens, --- Kirukegōru, Søren, --- Kjerkegor, Seren, --- Kʻo-erh-kʻai-ko-erh, --- Notabene, Nicolaus, --- Silentio, Johannes de, --- Sūrīn Kīrkajūrd, --- Victor, Eremita, --- Vigilius, Haufniensis, --- קירקגור, סרן --- קירקגור, סורן --- קירקגור, סירן --- קירקגור, סירן, --- קירקגורד, סרן, --- 克尓凯郭尓,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Encounters with Kierkegaard is a collection of every known eyewitness account of the great Danish thinker. Through many sharp observations of family members, friends and acquaintances, supporters and opponents, the life story of this elusive and remarkable figure comes into focus, offering a rare portrait of Kierkegaard the man. Often viewed by his contemporaries as a person who deliberately cultivated an air of mystery and eccentricity, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been, then and now, a subject of great speculation. His startling attack on the established church, his broken engagement with a young woman from a respected family, and his searing criticisms of literary figures--from the editors of The Corsair to Hans Christian Andersen--are among the acts that brought him much notoriety during his short lifetime. Yet arriving at a sense of the philosopher's personality and motives behind his behavior has been a difficult task. He left no memoirs of autobiography, but in the enormous cannon of his published writings, the author and the person Søren Kierkegaard is problematically present in a welter of disguises. An indispensable path to understanding what he was like as a person, maintains Bruce Kirmmse, is through the observations of his contemporaries. These accounts, ranging from the writings of Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, editor of The Corsair, to the recollections of Kierkegaard's fiancée, are organized around the major episodes of the philosopher's life. They enable us to glimpse, among many things, his spiritual and intellectual development, to get a sense of what it was like to be the object of his friendship or his wrath, and to examine various persons' opinions about his relationship with his young fiancée. The memories of this woman, Regine Olsen, who later married Fritz Schlegel, are among the most moving passages: they reveal her profound suffering, her personal understanding of Kierkegaard, and the satisfaction she ultimately felt, knowing that "he took her with him into history." This collection of first-hand accounts invites the reader to compare and interpret a wealth of fascinating stories, and in the end forms an intriguing "do-it-yourself" biography for both the scholar and general reader.

Kierkegaard, Søren --- Philosophers --- Denmark --- Biography --- Authors [Danish ] --- Theologians --- Kierkegaard, S²ren, - 1813-1855. --- Philosophers - Denmark - Biography. --- Authors, Danish - Denmark - Biography. --- Theologians - Denmark - Biography. --- Authors, Danish --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --- Danish authors --- Christian theologians --- Scholars --- Anti-climacus --- H. H. --- Aalborgposten. --- Agerskov family. --- Andrae, Hansine. --- Arentzen, Kristian. --- Beck, Frederik. --- Boesen, Emil. --- Brandes, Georg. --- Brosboll, Anna. --- Brøchner, Hans. --- Clausen, Julius. --- Collett, Camilla. --- Collin, Henriette. --- Damkier, Jens Emil. --- Fcedrelandet. --- Fenger, Emil,. --- Feuerbach, Ludwig. --- Hage, Johannes. --- Hall, Carl Christian. --- Hamilton, Andrew. --- Hammerich, Angul. --- Hansen, Peter. --- Hoffding, Harald. --- Ipsen, Harald Peter. --- Johansen, Niels. --- Kant, Immanuel. --- Karup, Wilhelm Ignatius. --- Knudsen, Jakob. --- Koch, Carl. --- Levin, Israel. --- Lindberg, Elise. --- Lofting, Marguerite. --- Lund, Holger. --- Meyer, Raphael. --- Mourier, Hanne. --- Neiiendam, Robert. --- Nielsen, Frederik. --- Olsen, Terkild. --- Paulli, Just Henrik. --- Plato. --- Ploug, Hother. --- Reitzel, Theodor. --- Rørdam, Catrine. --- Schorn, Willy. --- Socrates. --- Sodring, Julie Weber. --- Soro Academy. --- Videbech, Nanna. --- Visby, Carl Holger. --- Welding, Frederik. --- Wolff, August. --- Zinck, Otto. --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --- Theologians. --- Philosophers. --- Authors, Danish. --- Teologi. --- Filozofi. --- Kierkegaard, Soren, --- Denmark. --- Danska. --- Dacia (Kingdom) --- Dania --- Daniė --- Danie Korolygʺo --- Danii︠a︡ --- Danii︠a︡lʺul Khanlʺi --- Danimārk --- Danimarka --- Danimarka Krallığı --- Daniyah --- Danmark --- Dannemarc --- Danska --- Danyah --- Denemarke --- Denemarken --- Denemearc --- Denemearc þæt Cynerīce --- Denmaakʻŭ --- Dennemarck --- Dinamarca --- Kingdom of Denmark --- Kongeriget Danmark --- Koninkryk van Denemarke --- Ndinamayka --- Reino de Dinamarca --- Даниэ --- Дания --- Даниялъул Ханлъи --- Дание --- Дание Королыгъо --- دنمارك --- Anti-Climacus, --- Bogbinder, Hilarius, --- Chʻi-kʻo-kuo, --- Climacus, Johannes, --- Constantius, Constantin, --- Eremita, Victor, --- Haufniensis, Vigilius, --- Johannes, Climacus, --- Johannes de Silentio, --- Kʹerkegor, Seren, --- Kierkegaard, S. --- Kierkegaard, Severino, --- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, --- K'i͡erkegor, Sʹoren, --- Kīrkajūrd, Sūrīn, --- Kirkegaard, Soeren, --- Kirkegor, Seren, --- Ḳirḳegor, Sern, --- Kirkegors, Sērens, --- Kirukegōru, Søren, --- Kjerkegor, Seren, --- Kʻo-erh-kʻai-ko-erh, --- Notabene, Nicolaus, --- Silentio, Johannes de, --- Sūrīn Kīrkajūrd, --- Victor, Eremita, --- Vigilius, Haufniensis, --- Dani --- Danii͡ --- Danii͡alʺul Khanlʺi --- Denmaakʻ

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) published an extraordinary number of works during his lifetime, but he left behind nearly as much unpublished writing, most of which consists of what are called his "journals and notebooks." Volume 3 of this 11-volume edition of Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks includes Kierkegaard's extensive notes on lectures by the Danish theologian H. N. Clausen and by the German philosopher Schelling, as well as a great many other entries on philosophical, theological, and literary topics. In addition, the volume includes many personal reflections by Kierkegaard, notably those in which he provides an account of his love affair with Regine Olsen, his onetime fiancée.

Philosophers --- Kierkegaard, Søren,